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...objection to all things radical.Of course, Harvard students tend to favor social change far more than the voters of Missouri. But Harvard students have two distinctive characteristics that limit their tolerance for rapid change. First, students who make it to Harvard have done pretty well with the status quo. We’re not all wealthy and upper class—though a lot of us are—but we’ve all found some way to make the system work for us. Second, we all came to the oldest and best known school in the country. Harvard...
...People are genuinely horrified when high-profile cases are reported but completely unaware [of the problem] before,” Montigny said. “For any group that wants to change the status quo, you cannot do it without people tuned in and an active media....We need the law enforcement community talking to the public about the dangers of this being allowed to continue...
...bright dawn of the movies' digital age, but the Hollywood establishment still has its shades drawn. In the Oscar show at the Kodak Theatre (named after a company that is crucially invested in the film-stock status quo), the most popular live-action digital movie in history, George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith, won no awards, not even one for technical achievement. The year's boldest, most innovative digital experiment, Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller's Sin City, got no nominations...
...Canadian-taboo breaker is a proposal to allow Alberta doctors to work simultaneously in and outside the public-health sector; now doctors must choose one or the other. Antonia Maioni, director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, calls the plan a significant departure from the status quo. "It's not turning the system upside down yet," she says, but "there is something going on, and that something is this legitimization of the private sector in health care...
...comply with the international community's nuclear standards. India never signed the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and tested nuclear weapons in 1974 and 1998. Critics say other nations will now want their own exceptions to the rules. U.S. officials argue that this plan is an improvement on the status quo; currently only six of 23 Indian reactors are open to inspection...